Obama by Peter Baker

A concise political biography that traces his rise from community organizer to two-term president, examining how his temperament, rhetorical gifts and deliberate pragmatism shaped both his high aspirations and the compromises of governing; it covers the 2008 campaign and coalition-building, signature domestic achievements like the Affordable Care Act alongside the limits imposed by partisan polarization and Congress, key foreign-policy choices and crises, and the interplay of race, identity and public expectations in assessing his achievements and long-term legacy.

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